Cosmic rays or machines?
SEP 01, 1963
With the advent of ever more powerful particle accelerators, interest in cosmic‐ray phenomena has steadily shifted to energies higher than have been attained in the largest machines. According to the author, a cosmic‐ray specialist and professor of physics at New York University, the upper end of the cosmic‐ray spectrum is not yet in sight, and its extent is such that there are likely to be domains in pure physics for some time to come that only cosmic rays will be energetic enough to enter.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3051140
The subject of cosmic radiation has always exhibited schizoid tendencies. In recent years these may indeed have become somewhat more pronounced than before. Some physicists have voiced the thought that cosmic‐ray studies are becoming obsolete, in view of new machines, and yet other new groups are entering the field and proposing new work. Let us take a brief look at the situation
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Serge A. Korff, New York University.
© 1963 American Institute of Physics
